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Message: [QUOTE="willtalk, post: 3021503, member: 1220"] This is exactly what I have been posting about. The change in the type of recruits coming out of high school. They do not have the same degree of self motivation that they used to have. It was that motivation that made them chose Uconn and Geno's program in order to become the best players they could be. Today they will settle for less as Stevens did when she left early. I am not saying this is wrong, but that is just todays reality. What needs to be understood is that todays players, with a few exceptions, have spent far more time developing their basketball skills than most players did in the past. If you follow high school and AAU you can see this first hand. They play ball almost year round and constantly are honing their skills with personal trainers. Their individual skill level is already well developed when they come to college and so development is less important. You see this in the raised skill level of players now compared to the past. In ESPN's top 100 a rating of "96" was not to long ago the top rating received by few. In the 2019 the 96's fall between the 43 and 53 ranked players. The amount of time required of girls basketball is so intensive now that Mo'ni' Davis had a snow balls chance in he!! of competing with others with the amount of effort she chose to put into basketball. In todays reality the only real projects programs take on are very tall post players who generally develop later anyway. In todays reality, girls have already spent so much time on basketball that most are not that enthused ( burn out ) about spending more than necessary in college. There frankly is not that much individual skill top side skill left for them to develop. What is basically left is integrating the individual skill into a team dynamic. To put it simply, there are progressively fewer recruits coming out of high school who want to commit to a highly challenging developmental program like Uconn. This certainly diminishes the number of players that would qualify to fit the profile of past Uconn type players. [/QUOTE]

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